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"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
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"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation-lettuce farming, say-would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged."I'm good at it, he said."

"The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly."

"He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength."

"It is important that any value you add to yourself should be converted to tangible products that could benefit humanity."

"To live in purpose is to understand the moment of conception."

"Your calling multiplies you."
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"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community."

"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."

"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."
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